Songs · Drawings · Walks

Zander
Vance

I write songs and draw the places I walk. Everything here is mine, made start to finish.

Pencil and wash drawing of a lavender door mounted in a chain-link fence on a Houston street.
A door to nowhere, on purpose  Columbia Street, Houston.
Songs

Never Far

01

Wrote it for the one who leaves a light on.

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Saved As

02

2:47 a.m. A name stays saved in the phone, the call rings out to nobody, and the staying keeps happening in the dark. Late night R&B, for whoever still makes that call.

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What You Keep

03

Someone loved as an idea. Kept in a phone, never held. He sings it, not her, because he chose it.

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Left On Read

04

A duet. She catches him and stops picking up. He swears it wasn't him. Both sides of the same night.

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Velvet Touch

05

A slow one. The quiet moment where nobody has to speak.

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Through It

06

The quiet I kept like armor, and the door I finally walked through. Half song, half rap.

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I Got You

07

The other half of Through It. Whatever the night does, I got you.

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Drawings
Places I Walked
Pencil and wash drawing of a lavender door mounted in a chain-link fence.
A door to nowhere, on purposeColumbia Street, Houston. Lavender door in a chain-link fence. No path, no porch, facing the street on purpose.
Pencil and wash drawing of a two-story Colonial house with a concrete staircase.
The House With No StoryBloomington, Indiana. Nobody left to tell it. I walked the street anyway. It's still standing.
Walks
Columbia Street, Houston For weeks a lavender door in a chain-link fence stayed in my head. I went back to see if it was real. It was.
Bellaire Boulevard, Houston The Chinatown gateway says its own name in two languages. The flags were at half staff. I looked up why.
423 Eagleson, Bloomington A house in an essay by Louise Story. The name on the street changed. The house didn't.